TO V. D. BONCH-BRUYEVICH

Written:Written in the neighbourhood of GenevaPublished:First published in 1930 inLenin Miscellany XV.

      Sent to Geneva.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 36,

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September 13, 1904

DearVladimir Dmitrievich,

Sticka leaflet on the
pamphlet,[2]printing on it
(1)
an advertisement about your publishing agency (and on the
back);
(2) Boris’s statement on its prohibition (as already
set);
(3) the letter from Boris dated Sept. 12 (this
one),[3]without the postscript;
(4) a short additional remark,
something to this effect:

“Suchis the policy of people who so magnificently
carried on a war ‘of principle’ against formalism and
bureaucracy! It would, however, be interesting to learn which
clause of the Rules prohibits Party members from
publishing Party literature?

“V.Bonch-Bruyevich”

Greetingsto everybody. I shall be back on Thursday,
the day after tomorrow.

Yours,N. Lenin

P.S.Inform Sergei Petrovich:
(1) that on Thursday we
shall evict him from his quarters and shall be spending the
night there ourselves;
(2) that Pan wrote about Samsonov
four days ago. He should have been sent direct!

[1]AtV. A. Noskov’s suggestion, V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich intended
to apply to the Central Committee for the permission to organise
a “V. Bonch-Bruyevich and N. Lenin Publishers of
Social-Democratic Literature”.

[2]ThepamphletOur Misunderstandingsby Galyorka and
Ryadovoi.

[3]Leninwrote his letter to V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich on the free space
of V. A. Noskov’s letter of September 12, 1904, which he had
received through Bonch-Bruyevich (seeLenin Miscellany XV,
pp. 167–68).